Thursday, August 13, 2009

#5 RSS feeds and suchlike

I talked about this in the "blogs I like to read" post back at the start.

I still mostly like Firefox's live bookmarks for reading feeds -- I try to limit the amount I read to as small a number as possible so the physical limitations of that format are a bonus. Plus using Yahoo pipes to conglomerate a bunch of feeds narrows down the amount of things you need to click on.

But I would like to mention the best thing related to RSS feeds I've seen in ages -- Huffduffer.com

What it does is form a podcast rss feed from mp3 files that you find while you're looking around on the internet. You can either use a firefox addon or just a bookmarklet to add each file and it then goes into your own personal podcast feed. This is a fantastic way of keeping all your "stuff that I would like to listen to that I found while browsing on the internet" together -- I have rhythbox on my computer at home set to download whatever pops up in the feed so I can add stuff to it wherever and it'll be gathered there and I can just pop it on my mp3 player. My feed is here. Currently as of this moment it consists of a single entry but I do plan on adding stuff regularly it's just I've not seen anything to add in the last few days.

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